https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/something-old-something-new Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:27:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/something-old-something-new#post-1375608 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:37:35 +0000 always trying 1375608@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You are embarking on a wonderful, fun journey (hobby). I inherited a few pieces and have collected some myself. There is a simple elegance to some that is timeless. Onei have worn for some 30 years is a marks lite bead one strand necklace with rhinestones.</p> <p> Please share photos, and I will post the necklace when I get home. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/something-old-something-new#post-1375607 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:36:03 +0000 thimblelina 1375607@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Umm check your math... I think the 80's are vintage by your metric! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/something-old-something-new#post-1375597 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:21:45 +0000 Carole 1375597@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sounds like a fun treasure hunt! Some really beautiful pieces in the link above...I'll be looking forward to reading more about your shopping adventures! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/something-old-something-new#post-1375590 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:06:51 +0000 RheaJ 1375590@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have been loving all things vintage for quite some time now, without really knowing quite what 'vintage' means. In my head 'vintage' is anything with a soft focus 'yesteryear' feel with muted corals, jades and rose gold. Something exactly like the necklace in the picture in fact.</p> <p>What I learned recently is that "vintage" is officially something that has passed the 25 years old mark. So um... that would be me then. Oh dear. Further investigation tells me that "vintage" is actually something pertaining to a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://ragsfromthepast.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/what-does-it-really-mean-to-be-vintage/">particular season or period - like wine</a> - so something from the fifties is vintage, simply by way of being from a designated period in time. (I assume the period has to be over 25 years? The 80's isn't vintage yet.)</p> <p>My obsession with vintage, however, has never before stretched to 'antique' (officially something that has passed the 100 years old mark) and antique still reminds me of stately homes I was dragged around as a child where I did not even pretend to be interested in shabbily upholstered chairs and peculiar oil paintings of dead people. All this has changed. Antique jewellery, my friends, is my New Obsession.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pragnell.co.uk/products/antique-period.aspx">Go have a poke around here</a> and tell me that isn't something you would love to have in your jewellery collection. All of it. What I am noticing about antique jewellery is how unashamedly beautiful and sophisticated it is. I am not, and have never been, a fan of especially blingy 'statement' jewellery. There is something about it that is too ostentatious and too... gaudy. Antique jewellery is like the Queen - it can and will wear a tiara because it is old enough, and respected enough, that nobody would think to call it over the top. It is stately and it is quietly, determinedly, classy.</p> <p>I unfortunately do not have a rich old relative with a stunning jewellery collection, so I am going about this very very slowly - with the hopes of being the rich old relative with a stunning jewellery collection some day. I cannot quite afford the jewellery in the link above, but I am officially going antiquing at the weekend (instead of "vintage hunting" through thrift stores) and hope to find something to start my collection (and learn a little something along the way!) I will keep you posted :)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>